{"id":79199,"date":"2026-09-26T13:55:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T18:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/26\/trump-claims-stunning-casualty-numbers-in-russia-ukraine-war\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T13:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T18:55:21","slug":"trump-claims-stunning-casualty-numbers-in-russia-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/26\/trump-claims-stunning-casualty-numbers-in-russia-ukraine-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump claims stunning casualty numbers in Russia-Ukraine war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump said Saturday that 25,000 people were killed last month and another 32,000 the month before in the war <a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/category\/world\/conflicts\/ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">between Ukraine<\/a> and Russia<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last month, 25,000 people died in the Ukraine-Russia war, okay? 25,000,&#8221; he told reporters on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/executive\/white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White House<\/a> lawn Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The month before that, 32,000 people died \u2026 mostly soldiers, 97% soldiers. But whether they&#8217;re soldiers or civilians, think of it: 32,000. Two months ago, 33,000 people; this month, 25,000 people died. What a shame,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/world\/putin-unleashes-new-fury-ukraine-report-exposes-fear-hanging-over-wars-end\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>PUTIN UNLEASHES NEW FURY ON UKRAINE AS REPORT EXPOSES FEAR HANGING OVER WAR\u2019S END<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russia alone has lost as many as 450,000 soldiers since invading Ukraine in 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csis.org\/analysis\/russian-blood-and-treasure-ballooning-costs-putins-war?utm_source=gemini\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">according to<\/a> the Center for Strategic &amp; International Studies (CSIS).<\/p>\n<p>Trump also told reporters he wants to see an end to the war soon, revealing he spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/politics\/zelenskyy-seek-offramp-years-long-russia-war-un-speech-trump-reveals-peace-deal-close\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> recently.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/politics\/kushner-witkoff-set-kyiv-talks-after-putin-meeting-us-push-peace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>KUSHNER, WITKOFF SET FOR KYIV TALKS AFTER PUTIN MEETING IN US PUSH FOR PEACE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I spoke to him a lot, and he&#8217;s going along and Putin&#8217;s going along. And someday, hopefully in the not too distant future, maybe before the heavy winter, they&#8217;ll make a deal,&#8221; he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that he pushed Zelenskyy to try to make a deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/world\/zelenskyy-issues-open-letter-putin-proposing-meeting-us-fully-focused-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/world\/trump-negotiators-witkoff-kushner-arrive-moscow-us-pushes-end-russia-ukraine-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>TRUMP NEGOTIATORS WITKOFF, KUSHNER MEET WITH PUTIN IN MOSCOW AS US PUSHES FOR END TO RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I agreed with Zelenskyy that we talked about a lot of different subjects, and many of those subjects, very strong agreement. But you know what I want him to do? Make a deal. I want him to settle with Putin, and I want Putin to settle with him.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy announced Friday that Trump had agreed to give approval to Ukraine to license and produce U.S. Patriot missile interceptors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-says-us-let-ukraine-make-patriot-missiles-major-policy-shift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>TRUMP SAYS US WILL LET UKRAINE MAKE PATRIOT MISSILES IN MAJOR POLICY SHIFT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are concrete agreements regarding Patriot licenses. At our meeting, President Trump stressed that he had made his final decision: Ukraine will receive licenses to produce Patriot missiles,'&#8221; Zelenskyy posted Friday.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump had previously hesitated to grant Ukraine the licenses.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital contacted the White House for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump said Saturday that 25,000 people were killed last month and another 32,000 the month before in the war between Ukraine and Russia &#8220;Last month, 25,000 people died in the Ukraine-Russia war, okay? 25,000,&#8221; he told reporters on the White House lawn Saturday. &#8220;The month before that, 32,000 people died \u2026 mostly soldiers, &#8230; <a title=\"Trump claims stunning casualty numbers in Russia-Ukraine war\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/26\/trump-claims-stunning-casualty-numbers-in-russia-ukraine-war\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump claims stunning casualty numbers in Russia-Ukraine war\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}